Differences subsisting between this and the State of New-York to the Determination of Congress they being allowed equal Privilege as the State of ~ New York in supporting their Cause, reserving to themselves in the Trial of all Rights Privileges Immunities and advantages which they had or might have by any former Grants, Jurisdietions, Powers, and Privileges on account of any Province or State heretofore had, notwithstanding any subsequent Transaction. I am Gentlemen with the highest Esteem

Your obt humble servant Tuos. CHITTENDEN. The Honble Doct? Wetherspoon & Cole Atlee Members of a Committee of Congress.

PETITION OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

To the honorable the Congress of the United States of America. The Petition of Committees of the Towns of Hinsdale, Guilford Halifax, Brattleborough, Fulham, Putney Westminster, Rockingham, Springfield, and Weathersfield in the County of Cumberland in the State of New York upon behalf of themselves and their constituents

Most humbly Sheweth | That the former Government of N ew York while administered 'by the Servants of the King of Great Britain having been in

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some Instances oppressive to the Inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants West of Connecticut River ; Several discontented People belonging to Albany and Charlotte Counties in the State before mentioned, Sometime in the year of our Lord 1776, drew and circulated a Petition to the honorable the Congress, to erect the New Hampshire Grants into a Separate State.

That this plan being peaceable and regular in appearance, many Persons were drawn into the Measure throughout that part of the Grants over which New York exercises Jurisdiction.